About “Wicked Game”

This tale of obsessive love appeared on Isaak’s third album, Heart-Shaped World, in 1989. However, it only became a hit in January 1991, as part of David Lynch’s movie Wild at Heart, and would later become immortalized in one of the most beloved scenes of Friends (the sitcom Isaak would also make a guest appearance for):

This one I wrote really late at night and it was written in a short time, because I remember that a girl had called me and said, ‘I want to come over and talk to you,’ and ‘talk’ was a euphemism. And she said, ‘I want to come over and talk to you until you’re no longer able to stand up.’